January 24 and 27- Paraguay and Chile

Sears finishes after Bethune forces a turnover.

 

Croix took a little shot to the back after that.

 

In modern soccer it is very rare for players on quality teams to play both youth and senior as most coaches seem to want to use the Ux squads to find and develop talent. On the men's side Pulisic never played for a youth team after his first senior cap.
But Hayes is a VERY different coach and she may agree with me that you want some senior players on youth teams whenever possible for leadership It has now gone to 6-0 and it does not seem that close.

 

That would have been hilarious if Menti scored with absolutely no idea of it.

 

19,397 is the attendance.

 

Sentnor could have had a hat trick, but tried to set up Menti.

 

I see the overnight lows are in the 40s and it's LA, but it's still wild to see people bundled up in winter clothing when it's currently about 60°F.

 

One thing to remember is that teams do NOT have to release players for youth tournaments. If I were coaching a club side and any National team wanted one of my players to play some virtually meaningless youth tournament I would not release them unless they were not a key player and injury or fatigue was not important.

 

Final

United States of America 6 Paraguay 0

 

USWNT is All Elite.

 

I thought that referees were not supposed to shorten matches even friendlies on lopsided scores but even with all the subs and goals this ref gave no extra time in the second half.

 

Will there be any replays on the major channels?
I missed this live.

 

That’s cool. I know the captain!

 

That pass from Rudd was, to me, the play of the day.

 

So, Hayes said 17-18 for SheBelieves that are not here....

1) GK Tullis-Joyce
2) CB Girma
3) CB Sonnett
4) RB Fox
5) LB Reale
6) FB/WB/WM/WF: Patrerson
7) CM Coffey
8) CM/CAM: Heaps
9) CM Yohannes
10) CAM Lavelle
11) CAM/F Shaw
12) WF A. Thompson
13) CF Wilson
14) CF Macario
15) WF Cooper

2-3 more? Who am I missing? Someone returning from injury or leave like Davidson? A vet like Dunn coming back in? Schrader?

 

Sentnor - I've been pessimistic solely b/c her former lack of speed allowed her to be caught from behind all the time. But, at the u-23 match, she looked zippy. And, today she looked zippy. Did she get faster? Did she recognize the problem and runs faster? Is it just that this has come vs. U-23's and Paraguay? We will find out. But, with her finishing and shot creation, if she's solved that problem, it's hard to keep her off a roster.

 

How far down in the pool do we have to go before it gets competitive? Wow.

I had Hutton as POM.

And I'm not sure it's too late for La Bonta to make a World Cup. That was a pretty impressive outing by her.

 

Only place I found with full match replay was HBO/Max. BTW, the replay is G.L.O.R.I.O.U.S.